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A silver denarius of the emperor Septimius Severus showing Liber and a panther Coin Type: Silver denarius of Septimius Severus, 193 CE - 211 CE
Mint and Date: Rome, 194 CE.
Size and Weight: 19 mm, 2.95g
Obverse: L SEP SEV PERT AVG IMP III
Laureate head right.
Reverse: LIBERO PATRI
Liber, wearing wreath, naked except for cloak over left arm, standing facing, head left, with right hand emptying wine jug for little panther, which stands left before him, one paw raised, and lifts its head to catch the drops; and holding a thyrsus vertical in left hand.
Ref: RCV (2002) 6307; RIC IV 32; BMCRE V p.31, 64
Provenance: silenoscoins (eBay), January 2007.
BW Ref: 052 032 103
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Note: The jug carried by Liber Pater is usually described as a kantharos or cantharus, but it is not. See this section of my page on ceramics on ancient coins.


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